Reversing Secrets of Reverse Engineering (Apr 2005) h33t Athul

Reverse engineering is the process of extracting the knowledge or design blueprints
from anything man-made.

Software is one of the most complex and intriguing technologies around us
nowadays, and software reverse engineering is about opening up a program’s
“box,” and looking inside

Reversing is used extensively in both ends of the malicious software chain.
Developers of malicious software often use reversing to locate vulnerabilities
in operating systems and other software. Such vulnerabilities can be used to
penetrate the system’s defense layers and allow infection—usually over the
Internet

ISBN-10: 0-7645-7481-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-7481-8